Stance on Climate Change

“I think that the preponderance of evidence shows that humans are the main cause of the increase in atmospheric CO2… . I don't think that the change in CO2 will make any meaningful difference to the temperature.” [2]

Key Quotes

“Greenland is losing about 0.007% of its total mass every year … seven thousandths of one percent lost annually, be still, my beating heart … And if that terrifying rate of loss continues unabated, of course, it will all be gone in a mere 15,000 years.” [3]

“There might be some adverse outcomes from that eight tenths of a degree of temperature rise threatening my Grandchildren in 2050, but neither I nor anyone else knows what those outcomes might be. We'll assuredly get an extra flood over here, and one less flood over there, it's very likely to be drier somewhere and wetter somewhere else, in other words, the climate will do what climate has done since forever — change.” [4]

“The problem is that 71.3% of what passes as peer reviewed climate science is simply junk science, as false as the percentage cited in this sentence.” [5]

“'Sustainable Development' is just an airy-fairy moonbeam fantasy, a New Age oxymoron. In the real world, it can’t happen.” [6]

Key Deeds

July 7 - 9, 2014

Willis Eschenbach was a speaker[4] at the Heartland Institute[5]’s Ninth International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC9) in Las Vegas, Nevada. [19]

DeSmogBlog has done in-depth research on the other speakers and sponsors from Heartland's ICCC9, which can be found here[6].

The BEST data had shown a similar amount of warming to NASAGISS, HadCRU, and NOAA surface temperature datasets, except that the project had received funding from private groups like the Koch brothers and included climate change skeptics Richard Muller on the team.

Eschenbach contends[20] that Greenland has only lost a small fraction of it's total ice mass. [3]

SkepticalScience examined this argument,[21] and explains that “Multiple lines of evidence indicate Greenland's ice loss is accelerating and will contribute sea level rise in the order of metres over the next few centuries.” [12]

Another of his arguments is that a change of only a few degrees will not likely be an issue to worry about. This is another argument debunked by SkepticalScience[22].

June, 2009

Eschenbach put forward a hypothesis[23] that clouds and thunderstorms, particularly in the tropics, control the earth’s temperature. [13]